Deuteronomy 16

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

16 Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

²You shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God from the flock or the herd in the place where the Lord will choose to make His Name [and His Presence] dwell.

³You shall eat no leavened bread with it; for seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you fled from the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may [earnestly] remember the day when you came out of Egypt.

⁴No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days; nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrificed the first day at evening be left all night until the morning.

⁵You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns which the Lord your God gives you,

⁶But at the place which the Lord your God will choose in which to make His Name [and His Presence] dwell, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice in the evening at sunset, at the season that you came out of Egypt.

⁷And you shall roast or boil and eat it in the place which the Lord your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

⁸For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God; you shall do no work on it.

⁹You shall count seven weeks; begin to number the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.

¹⁰Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give to the Lord your God, as the Lord your God blesses you.

¹¹And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and daughter, your manservant and maidservant, and the Levite who is within your towns, the stranger or temporary resident, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place in which the Lord your God chooses to make His Name [and His Presence] dwell.

¹²And you shall [earnestly] remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be watchful and obey these statutes.

¹³You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths for seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and wine vat.

¹⁴You shall rejoice in your Feast, you, your son and daughter, your manservant and maidservant, the Levite, the transient and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.

¹⁵For seven days you shall keep a solemn Feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses; because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the works of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

¹⁶Three times a year shall all your males appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed:

¹⁷Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

¹⁸You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

¹⁹You shall not misinterpret or misapply judgment; you shall not be partial, or take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

²⁰Follow what is altogether just (uncompromisingly righteous), that you may live and inherit the land which your God gives you.

²¹You shall not plant for yourselves any kind of tree dedicated to [the goddess] Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God which you shall make.

²²Neither shall you set up an idolatrous stone or image, which the Lord your God hates.

Deuteronomy 16

New International Version

The Passover^(A)

16 Observe the month of Aviv^(B) and celebrate the Passover^(C) of the Lord your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night. ²Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name.^(D) ³Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction,^(E) because you left Egypt in haste^(F)—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.^(G) ⁴Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening^(H) of the first day remain until morning.^(I)

⁵You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you ⁶except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary^[a]^(J) of your departure from Egypt. ⁷Roast^(K) it and eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. ⁸For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly^(L) to the Lord your God and do no work.^(M)

The Festival of Weeks^(N)

⁹Count off seven weeks^(O) from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.^(P) ¹⁰Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you. ¹¹And rejoice^(Q) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name^(R)—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites^(S) in your towns, and the foreigners,^(T) the fatherless and the widows living among you.^(U) ¹²Remember that you were slaves in Egypt,^(V) and follow carefully these decrees.

The Festival of Tabernacles^(W)

¹³Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor^(X) and your winepress.^(Y) ¹⁴Be joyful^(Z) at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. ¹⁵For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy^(AA) will be complete.

¹⁶Three times a year all your men must appear^(AB) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread,^(AC) the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.^(AD) No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed:^(AE) ¹⁷Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.

Judges

¹⁸Appoint judges^(AF) and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.^(AG) ¹⁹Do not pervert justice^(AH) or show partiality.^(AI) Do not accept a bribe,^(AJ) for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent. ²⁰Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Worshiping Other Gods

²¹Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole^(AK) beside the altar you build to the Lord your God,^(AL) ²²and do not erect a sacred stone,^(AM) for these the Lord your God hates.

Footnotes

Deuteronomy 16:6 Or down, at the time of day

Deuteronomy 16

New King James Version

The Passover Reviewed^(A)

16 “Observe the ^(B)month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for ^(C)in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. ²Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, from the flock and ^(D)the herd, in the ^(E)place where the Lord chooses to put His name. ³You shall eat no leavened bread with it; ^(F)seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may ^(G)remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. ⁴^(H)And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until ^(I)morning.

⁵“You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you; ⁶but at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover ^(J)at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt. ⁷And you shall roast and eat it ^(K)in the place which the Lord your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. ⁸Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and ^(L)on the seventh day there shall be a ^[a]sacred assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it.

The Feast of Weeks Reviewed^(M)

⁹“You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain. ¹⁰Then you shall keep the ^(N)Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give ^(O)as the Lord your God blesses you. ¹¹^(P)You shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. ¹²^(Q)And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

The Feast of Tabernacles Reviewed^(R)

¹³^(S)“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress. ¹⁴And ^(T)you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your ^[b]gates. ¹⁵^(U)Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.

¹⁶^(V)“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and ^(W)they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. ¹⁷Every man shall give as he is able, ^(X)according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

Justice Must Be Administered

¹⁸“You shall appoint ^(Y)judges and officers in all your ^[c]gates, which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment. ¹⁹^(Z)You shall not pervert justice; ^(AA)you shall not ^[d]show partiality, ^(AB)nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and ^[e]twists the words of the righteous. ²⁰You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may ^(AC)live and inherit the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

²¹^(AD)“You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a ^[f]wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the Lord your God. ²²^(AE)You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the Lord your God hates.

Footnotes

Deuteronomy 16:8 Lit. restraint
Deuteronomy 16:14 towns
Deuteronomy 16:18 towns
Deuteronomy 16:19 Lit. regard faces
Deuteronomy 16:19 perverts
Deuteronomy 16:21 Or Asherah

Deuteronomio 16

Biblia del Jubileo

16 ¶ Guardarás el mes (de Abib) de los nuevos frutos, y harás pascua al SEÑOR tu Dios; porque en el mes de los nuevos frutos te sacó el SEÑOR tu Dios de Egipto de noche.

²Y sacrificarás la pascua al SEÑOR tu Dios, de las ovejas y de las vacas, en el lugar que el SEÑOR escogiere para hacer habitar en él su nombre.

³No comerás con ella leudo; siete días comerás con ella panes por leudar, pan de aflicción, porque aprisa saliste de tierra de Egipto; para que te acuerdes del día en que saliste de la tierra de Egipto todos los días de tu vida.

⁴Y no parecerá levadura en ti, en todo tu término por siete días; y de la carne que matares a la tarde del primer día, no quedará hasta la mañana.

⁵No podrás sacrificar la pascua en ninguna de tus ciudades, que el SEÑOR tu Dios te da;

⁶sino en el lugar que el SEÑOR tu Dios escogiere para hacer habitar en él su nombre, sacrificarás la pascua por la tarde a la puesta del sol, al tiempo señalado cuando saliste de Egipto.

⁷Y la asarás y comerás en el lugar que el SEÑOR tu Dios escogiere; y por la mañana te volverás y regresarás a tus tabernáculos.

⁸Seis días comerás panes cenceños, y el séptimo día será fiesta solemne al SEÑOR tu Dios; no harás obra en él.

⁹Siete semanas te contarás; desde que comenzare la hoz en las mieses comenzarás a contar las siete semanas.

¹⁰Y harás la fiesta solemne de las semanas al SEÑOR tu Dios; de la abundancia voluntaria de tu mano será lo que dieres, según el SEÑOR tu Dios te hubiere bendecido.

¹¹Y te alegrarás delante del SEÑOR tu Dios, tú, tu hijo, tu hija, tu esclavo, tu esclava, el levita que estuviere en tus puertas, el extranjero, el huérfano, y la viuda, que estuvieren entre vosotros, en el lugar que el SEÑOR tu Dios escogiere para hacer habitar en él su nombre.

¹²Y te acordarás que fuiste esclavo en Egipto; por tanto, guardarás y cumplirás estos estatutos.

¹³La fiesta solemne de los tabernáculos harás siete días, cuando hayas hecho la cosecha de tu era y de tu lagar.

¹⁴Y te alegrarás en tu fiesta solemne, tú, tu hijo, tu hija, tu esclavo, tu esclava, el levita, el extranjero, el huérfano, y la viuda, que están en tus poblaciones.

¹⁵Siete días celebrarás fiesta solemne al SEÑOR tu Dios en el lugar que el SEÑOR escogiere; porque te habrá bendecido el SEÑOR tu Dios en todos tus frutos, en toda obra de tus manos, y estarás verdaderamente alegre.

¹⁶Tres veces cada año parecerá todo varón tuyo delante del SEÑOR tu Dios en el lugar que él escogiere: en la fiesta solemne de los panes cenceños, y en la fiesta solemne de las semanas, en la fiesta solemne de los tabernáculos. Y no parecerá vacío delante del SEÑOR:

¹⁷Cada uno con el don de su mano, conforme a la bendición del SEÑOR tu Dios, que te hubiere dado.

¹⁸¶ Jueces y alcaldes pondrás en todas las puertas de tus ciudades que el SEÑOR tu Dios te dará en tus tribus, los cuales juzgarán al pueblo con juicio de justicia.

¹⁹No tuerzas el derecho; no hagas acepción de personas, ni tomes soborno; porque el soborno ciega los ojos de los sabios, y pervierte las palabras de los justos.

²⁰La justicia, la justicia seguirás, para que vivas y heredes la tierra que el SEÑOR tu Dios te da.

²¹No plantarás bosque de ningún árbol cerca del altar del SEÑOR tu Dios, que te harás.

²²Ni te levantarás estatua; lo cual aborrece el SEÑOR tu Dios.

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Deuteronomy 16

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